Prompt from Alex: Write a five minute short story about someone waiting for a train on a country station platform. Where are they going? What are they thinking about? And what happens next?
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This week’s prompt by Alex
Writing Tip no 9 from Alex’s book, 63 Writing Tips: Don’t wait for the Muse. She may never show up.
Conkers, catkins, acorns, adders…
This week’s prompt by Jude
“Words omitted from the 2007 Oxford Junior dictionary included acorn, adder, ash, beech, bluebell, buttercup, catkin, conker, cowslip, cygnet, dandelion, fern, hazel, heather, heron, ivy, kingfisher, lark, mistletoe, nectar, newt, otter, pasture and willow. The words taking their places in the new edition included attachment, block-graph, blog, broadband, bullet-point, celebrity, chatroom, committee, cut-and-paste, MP3 player and voice-mail.” Robert MacFarlane
An experiment: Take a notebook and pen and write a short piece with your non-dominant hand from the point of view of a child. Use one or more of the words omitted from the Oxford Junior dictionary.
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